->'''Washington''': How do you ever get anything done if all you ever do is argue with each other?\\'''Church''': We ''don't!'' That's part of our charm! Quit fucking it up!

''Red vs. Blue'' is a {{Machinima}}/CGI-animated military WorkCom set against the background of the ''{{Franchise/Halo}}'' game series. Its creators, Creator/RoosterTeeth Productions, helped spark the whole {{Machinima}} explosion and went on to establish themselves as {{Big Name Fan}}s in the ''Halo'' community to the point of doing actual work for Creator/{{Bungie}} Studios, as well as making their videos available for purchase on Xbox Live. [[LongRunner Having started in 2003 and still being an ongoing work, this series is not only the longest-running episodic web series of all time, but the longest-running American sci-fi series of all time.]][[note]]It's also the second longest-running general web series, beaten only by ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner''.[[/note]] Credit must also be given to its legacy: the series basically kickstarted the video game Machinima industry and was heavily influential in the development of both serialized internet fiction and internet comedy series as a whole.

Beginning as a simple comedy series, Red vs Blue follows two opposing military installations locked in eternal war in a box canyon - the Reds and the Blues. When the Blue team hire a freelance agent to give them an advantage, things get a bit more complicated. As the [[RunningGag running jokes]] and [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters many characters]] begin to [[ContinuityLockOut pile up]], so starts a story that [[MoodWhiplash quickly develops]] a surprising amount of [[CerebusSyndrome emotional depth]], while never forgetting its comedic roots.

The long-running story is divided into multiple story arcs, as detailed below.* The first story arc, '''[[Machinima/RedVsBlueTheBloodGulchChronicles The Blood Gulch Chronicles]]''', ran for five seasons with a total of 100 episodes (plus a short miniseries named "Out of Mind"). The first two seasons, and half of the third, are filmed in ''VideoGame/{{Halo}}'', while the remaining seasons are filmed in ''VideoGame/{{Halo 2}}''.* The second story arc, '''[[Machinima/RedVsBlueTheRecollection The Recollection]]''', is a trilogy spanning Seasons 6 to 8 ([[NewSeasonNewTitle each given a unique title]] [[ThemeNaming beginning with "Re"]]: "Reconstruction", "Recreation" and "Revelation") and two miniseries ("Recovery One" and "Relocated"). Season 8 marks the introduction of high-budget CGI-rendered scenes in addition to the traditional Machinima-styled ''VideoGame/{{Halo 3}}'' scenes.* The third story arc, '''[[Machinima/RedVsBlueTheProjectFreelancerSaga The Project Freelancer Saga]]''', comprises Seasons 9 and 10, is equally divided between a {{prequel}} storyline fully animated in CGI, and the continuation of the present-day storyline. Season 9 is filmed in VideoGame/HaloReach and Season 10 is filmed in ''Halo 3''.* The fourth story arc, '''[[Machinima/RedVsBlueTheChorusTrilogy The Chorus Trilogy]]''', spans Seasons 11-13, and starts out as a BreatherEpisode, intended to bring the series back to its more comedic roots... [[MoodWhiplash for a while]]. It uses ''VideoGame/{{Halo 4}}'' assets.

The fourteenth season consists mostly of vignettes, rather than directly continuing Season 13's story.

All fourteen seasons can be viewed at [[http://roosterteeth.com/archive/?sid=rvb&v=more the Rooster Teeth website]], or on the [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCII0hP2Ycmhh5j8lS4cexBQ official Red vs. Blue YouTube channel]]. Seasons 1-13 are also available on Netflix and DVD (Netflix UK does not have Seasons 1-5), and Seasons 1, 2, 9 and 10 on Amazon Prime. The series made a televised debut on the El Rey Network late 2015.

A series guidebook was published in 2015, titled ''Red vs. Blue: The Ultimate Fan Guide'' and compiling information relating to the first thirteen seasons.

Has an expansive character sheet [[Characters/RedVsBlue here]].

----!!Do you ever wonder why these tropes are here?

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[[folder: Series-wide]]* TwentyFourHourArmor: ''Very'' few characters remove even a piece of their power armor, making almost every single character TheFaceless.* AnAesop: Several seasons have definite messages.** ''Machinima/RedVsBlueTheBloodGulchChronicles'' [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop has one]] delivered by Church in the end.--->'''Church''': You should hate someone because they're an [[{{Jerkass}} asshole]], or a [[LovableSexManiac pervert]], or [[StereotypeGay snob]], or they're [[LazyBum lazy]], or [[SmugSnake arrogant]] or an [[TheDitz idiot]] or [[InsufferableGenius know-it-all]]. Those are reasons to dislike somebody. You don't hate a person because someone told you to. You have to learn to [[ItsPersonal despise people on a personal level]]. Not because they're Red, or because they're Blue, but because you know them, and you see them every single day, and you can't stand them because they're a complete and total fucking douchebag.** {{Forgiveness}} is a major moral by the end of ''Machinima/RedVsBlueTheRecollection'' ** Letting go of loved ones is a theme in both Season 8 and 9. (Mostly Church letting go of Tex, but also Caboose letting go of Church)** Season 10 has one given by [[spoiler:Carolina]].--->'''[[spoiler:Carolina]]:''' Your past doesn't define who you are. It just gives you the starting point for who you're going to be.* AIIsACrapshoot: A recurring theme. Key examples are [[UnstoppableRage Omega]], [[AmbitionIsEvil Sigma]], and [[ManipulativeBastard Gamma]].* ArcFatigue: Invoked. Church is trying to re-enact the events of Season 1 to draw Tex out, and it mostly consists of standing around and waiting for stuff to happen.* ArcWords:** "You ever wonder why we're here?" --Also a BrickJoke and a ChekhovsBoomerang.** "Memory is the key." --''Machinima/RedVsBlueTheRecollection''*** Lampshaded in Episode 6 of Season 8.---->[[spoiler:'''Epsilon-Delta:''']] Remember: Memory is the key.\\'''[[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Caboose]]:''' What? I thought we were done with that part.*** And further parodied in season 10.---->'''Church''': Proximity is the key.\\'''Tucker''': I thought memory was the key?\\'''Caboose''': Oh yeah, and the sword, the sword is a key too. ... We should probably get a key ring.** "Don't say goodbye. I hate goodbyes."** The Chorus Trilogy has "You just have to try," and "What do you fight for?".* ArmedFarces: Especially in the early seasons.-->'''[[Machinima/RedVsBlueTheBloodGulchChronicles Church]]:''' Holy crap, ''who is running this army?!?''* ArtEvolution: As new Halo games were released with improved graphical capabilities, the series frequently changed and adapted its engine and art style.** The first two and a half seasons of the Blood Gulch Chronicles use the original ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved'' engine, and for the second half of Season 3 until the end of Season 5, the ''VideoGame/{{Halo 2}}'' engine is used. This shift was lampshaded in-universe with the explanation that the cast had [[spoiler:supposedly]] travelled to the future. ''VideoGame/{{Marathon}}'''s engine is also used briefly during a Season 3 subplot to represent the past.** The entire Recollection Trilogy (Seasons 6-8) uses the ''VideoGame/{{Halo 3}}'' engine.** The biggest ArtBump is the sporadic introduction of sequences fully animated in CGI starting in Season 8 and continuing during Seasons 9, 10, 12 and 13.** The Project Freelancer Saga [[ArtShift uses many different styles]]. The extensive flashback arc throughout both seasons is animated entirely in CGI. The present day storyline of Season 9 uses ''VideoGame/HaloReach'', but since the storyline takes place [[spoiler:inside the Epsilon unit]], the subsequent season returns to ''Halo 3''. Live action footage is even used briefly in Season 10 for [[spoiler:the Director's log of his last moments with Allison]]. Finally, the ''VideoGame/{{Halo 4}}'' engine is used starting in the final scene of Season 10 and continuing throughout all of the Chorus Trilogy.** Played with with Delta's avatar. Whenever he is shown, he appears as a ''Halo: Combat Evolved'' Spartan, no matter where and in which season he appears in.* ArtifactTitle: The Reds and Blues don't really fight each other after Season 5 excluding [[spoiler:inside the Epsilon unit]] in Season 9 and at Crash Site Bravo in Season 11.* ArtificialIntelligence: Many over the course of the series, almost all of which are named for Greek letters. [[spoiler:The majority have [[TomatoInTheMirror a common source]].]]* BadassCrew: Several levels had to be taken and it's obscured by their quirkiness, but by Seasons 8 through 10, the Blood Gulchers most definitely count. True, they mainly succeed through a combination of [[TheFool sheer luck]] and being [[UnderestimatingBadassery severely underestimated]] but it doesn't matter ''how'' they kick your ass. They can and they will.%% BackFromTheDead does not apply, as every "resurrection" is a new individual. See also: The various Churches having their own identities.* BigBadEnsemble: The whole series is caused by the combined actions of [[spoiler:The Director (for starting up Project Freelancer), Sigma (for causing Project Freelancer's downfall), and the Chairman (for being against Project Freelancer.)]]. Referenced in the Chorus trilogy when the Reds and Blues suspect it has something to do with Wash or Carolina because their organization tends to be the cause of their problems, one way or another. Their suspicion turns out to be correct, if more indirectly than usual.* BunnyEarsLawyer: The Blood Gulch Crew have slowly grown into this role over the years, especially by the end of season 13 where they have most definitely become proper soldiers, albeit ones with very quirky and unconventional behaviour. [[spoiler:Their take-down of Felix is a great example of when you either A, underestimate them, or B, try to apply a soldier's tactics with these guys]].* CallingShotgun: A RunningGag between Simmons and Grif. Generally Grif wins, except when winning is actually a bad thing, in which case Simmons will win.-->'''Simmons:''' Shotgun! -->'''Grif:''' Shotgun! Fuck! -->'''Donut:''' Shotgun's lap! -->'''Simmons:''' Fuck!* CerebusRetcon: Could be the poster child for this trope. HarsherInHindsight applies to previous seasons as the writers seem to be trying to one up themselves on reinterpreting a surreal mess of comedic fluff into a dramatic war story.* CerebusRollercoaster: While the general narrative has [[CerebusSyndrome grown gradually darker and more convoluted]] as the seasons have gone by, the series is not at all shy about dipping into stretches of comedy and drama on a wim. As an example, season 4 dropped most of the plot elements from the third season, while the miniseries that takes place chronologically concurrent is a more traditional revenge tale as Tex, York, and the Delta AI are the central focus. After the very dramatic Reconstruction (season 6) its followup miniseries and Recreation (season 7) are vastly more comedy-focused until the last 5 episodes. After the Freelancer arc that formed a progressing storyline in seasons 6-10, season 11 while mostly a comedic throwback to the Blood Gulch Chronicles, also contained several moments that would set up important plot points for the storyline and acknowledged character relationships with the occasional serious scene. Seasons 12 and 13 are concerned with a fairly serious war story, but with the traditional quirky angle that has a lot of humor that doubles as a way to quickly give characterization to the new cast of characters.* ChekhovsGun: Plot elements will often be introduced as a throw-away line or background event, then elaborated on as part of the main plot in a later season one or two years later.** Grif lampshades this as he tells the Chorus rebels the story of [[spoiler: how they beat the Meta]]... but considering how he tried using this to justify his asking for a hammock (or human-slingshot), he probably had lazier motives.* ClusterFBomb: The series is rife with it.** The fifth season's DVD acknowledges and has fun with this. One of the features is a "Previously On Red Vs. Blue", which contains ''every single swear'' in the series up to the Pelican crashing... and lasts over a minute and a half. If one was made of all eight seasons and the mini-series, it would probably be a good three or four minutes long.* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: All of the characters shown in armour have completely different colours to help differentiate between them, the exceptions being North and South Dakota (North's armour is a darker purple than South's), Carolina and Tucker (Tucker's armour is more green compared to Carolina's), and Tucker and Butch Flowers, the person whom Tucker got his armour from. For a long time many people thought Grif's armour was yellow, until Sister (whose armour really is yellow) settled the matter. It's a lot easier to see that his armour is orange when they stand next to each other. * ComedicSociopathy: The Gulch crew are usually apathetic or even outright pleased about the rampant danger their fellows often end up getting into, which regularly degenerates into teammates casually taking potshots at each other. Whenever one of them gets seriously injured, though, their compatriots are genuinely horrified, and moving away from this mindset above a surface level banter informs much of their CharacterDevelopment. Comparing how the Reds and Blues act towards each other in season 1 to the final act of the Chorus trilogy, if it weren't for keeping their armor colors and core personalities they're almost unrecognizable.* CompilationMovie: Each season gets one, complete with HilariousOuttakes. Inverted starting with ''Reconstruction''. Each season is created ''as'' a movie, then gets split into individual episodes for serialization. The complete, original movie is then released for purchase.* CorruptQuartermaster:The Reds repeatedly put layabout Grif in charge of their ammo, a task he never performed. Eventually, they expanded [[ProfessionalButtKisser Simmons']] duties to "bringing extra ammo for when Grif forgets." However, when Grif and Simmons are sent to a new base (where Grif is in charge), he actually sells all their ammo to the Blues.* DysfunctionJunction: ** The Reds and Blues don't have to use the other team for target practice or anything. They've got each other for that. Especially the Reds.** As Seasons 9 and 10 reveal, Project Freelancer wasn't much better, though they didn't outright attack each other. [[spoiler:At least until the end...]]* EnemyMine: One of the most common themes of the series from Season 3 onwards. ** Despite being (at least on paper) opposing enemies in a pointless war, the Reds and Blues are consistently forced to work together to take down a greater evil.-->'''Tucker:''' You brought [the Reds]? Are we killin' each other today? Or pretending to work together?\\'''Caboose:''' Uh, the pretending version.\\'''Tucker:''' Oh, okay, cool.** The trope is also deconstructed in Season 13, as Wash notes that even though [[spoiler:The New Republic and Federal Army of Chorus]] are working together, [[WeAreStrugglingTogether they still aren't]] ''[[WeAreStrugglingTogether working]]'' [[WeAreStrugglingTogether together]].* TheFaceless: Almost everyone.* FamousLastWords: Lots of characters go out saying [[CurseCutShort "Son of a bit-".]]* FictionalSport: Grifball, which became so popular, less than three years after its inception, it was the only sport played. * FireForgedFriends: Especially evident in the seasons from 6 onward, but the various conflicts that the Reds and Blues of Blood Gulch go through outside of their own personal war with each other have, by the time of Season 10, made them into a combined BadassCrew, even complimenting members of opposing "teams". [[spoiler:By the time of Episode 21 of Season 10, even [[BrokenBird Carolina]] [[DefrostingIceQueen defrosts]] to them. By the final shot of season 13, it's no question that they're a family.]]* {{Flanderization}}: Almost everyone. TropesAreNotBad, as this led to characters like Caboose, Simmons, and Donut who had some personality traits that weren't quite unique enough to set them apart cranked UpToEleven, ironically giving them more fleshed out personalities in the process.** [[spoiler:Alpha-]]Church goes from being a kind of bad shot with his SniperRifle to full on ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy with any gun he gets his hands on, unable to hit anything except by AccidentalAimingSkills.** Caboose goes from being a bit slow at the start of the series to [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} borderline insanity, unable to follow a simple train of thought.]] In his case, this [[JustifiedTrope is due in part to the massive battle that goes on inside his head early on causing brain damage]]. Also, apparently Church and Tucker rebooted his armor once and didn't manage to turn it back one right away. He said he didn't think it caused any lasting damage so of course it did.** Tucker goes from being a flirtatious lady's man of questionable success to a CassanovaWannabee who attempts to sleep with any girl that'll listen to him for more than ten seconds.** Sarge's bullying of and threats to kill Grif start as attempts at murder and escalates to a psychotic obssession with making his life as miserable and humiliating as possible, at times being his single character trait in some scenes.** Grif's apathy that doesn't in some way have to do with eating, napping, and making up excuses to avoid work morphed into a MagnificentBastard who comes up with cunning schemes and LoopholeAbuse to avoid work or risking his life, even if said schemes are more complicated to execute than the orders he's given. ** Donut goes from being ambiguously effeminate to Tucker's CampGay counterpart in sexually suggestive dialogue and attempts to sleep with any male soldier in his line of view.** Simmons goes from teacher's pet to groveling sycophant with occasional [[ServileSnarker Servile Snark]]. *** This trait is actually getting dialled down a bit as of the Chorus trilogy; he kisses Sarge's butt a lot less than he used to and even makes sarcastic remarks to him. [[spoiler: This is probably because getting promoted to Captain and being put into a leadership role himself has helped him become a bit more self-confident]]** Tex goes from being a skilled special-ops soldier to a legendarily powerful badass. ** Doc begins as a neutral pacifist without extensive medical training (but nevertheless treats Caboose during an active shootout), and ends up a man panicked by any sign of conflict and with complete incompetence in his supposed area of expertise. However, this is zigzagged according to the needs of the plot when someone who's critically injured needs to be kept alive.*** Seasons 8 and on present an interesting case when this is reverted back to giving the Reds and Blues subtler traits while sticking to their core personalities.** Grif's intelligence and nack for getting out of dangerous situations is shown to make him a very pragmatic survivor in combat that's willing to suck up his shame and bite the bullet if there's no way out of a mission that precludes death.** Church's occasional moments of compassion and downplaying his anger (particularly as [[spoiler:the Epsilon AI]]) have made him one of the most empathetic members of the cast.** For all of Sarge's blundering about and questionable sanity, the reason why he's stuck around as a soldier for so long is apparent with his genuine leadership and charisma with his men when things are at their worst in a fight. He's also willing to overlook Grif's existence and has TookALevelInKindness since Revelation, probably because when it comes down to it, murder's not what he's in the army for and he's an honorable soldier when confronted with those that are genuinely in it for the killing.** Tucker may be the biggest example. His moments of being TheStraightMan to the Reds and Blues have drastically increased his competence as a fighter, leading to his skill with the sword as a weapon he's comfortable with and being a quick and decisive strategist. Even Wash admits he's not the same miserable excuse of a human being he was in Blood Gulch.* {{Foreshadowing}}: In Reconstruction, we learn that [[spoiler:Church was an AI unit and that was why he survived being seemingly killed, was able to jump from mind to mind, and had a 'ghost' form]]. Just before TheReveal by Wash, there's a quick scene showing the relevent clips just to hammer it in. Guess who else shared those exact same characteristics. [[spoiler: Agent Texas.]]* ForeverWar:** The "war" between the Red and Blue armies, in Blood Gulch at least, aren't really fighting so much as slacking off at opposite ends of the box canyon, and it only ''feels'' like they've been there forever, but if there's one thing they can all agree on, it's that neither side has any clue why they're supposed to be fighting, or what the actual benefit would be of "winning".-->'''Simmons''': Seriously though, why are we out here? As far as I can tell, it's just a box canyon in the middle of nowhere. No way in or out.-->'''Grif''': Mm hmm.-->'''Simmons''': The only reason that we set up a Red Base here, is because they have a Blue Base over there. And the only reason they have a Blue Base over there, is because we have a Red Base here.-->'''Grif''': Yeah, that's because we're fighting each other.-->'''Simmons''': No, no. But I mean, even if we were to pull out today, and if they would come take our base, they would have two bases in the middle of a box canyon; whoopdee-fucking-doo.** [[spoiler:Eventually justified when it turns out that they aren't ''actually'' at war, and are just simulation troopers to train Freelancers for ''actual'' wars]]. Both sides always end up teaming up with each other to take down a larger enemy, and the war isn't even really being waged (except in Sarge's mind) after Season 5, excluding Season 9 and Season 11.** In Season 3, Sarge and Caboose [[TeleporterAccident accidentally wind up]] in the Battle Creek map, where two teams of immortal zealots fight to Capture the Flag while spouting comments and insults straight out of X Box Live, and are revived at the end of each match, like a very stupid type of Myth/NorseMythology's [[WarriorHeaven Valhalla]].** In ''The Chorus Trilogy'', the Federal Army of Chorus and the New Republic are fighting a CivilWar on the planet Chorus that has been fought for years upon years [[spoiler:thanks to the manipulation of a [[SpacePirates third party]] led by Chairman Hargrove.]]* FriendlyEnemy: The Blood Gulchers seem to get along with members of the opposite team fairly well ([[VitriolicBestBuds well, at least as well as members of the same team get along with each other]]), to varying degrees. By Season 10, their "war" continues mostly because of habit and the fact nobody on either team has anything better to do.* GrandFinale: Each of the "arcs" has one, though not for the entire series.** Episode 100 of Season 5 was one to ''Machinima/RedVsBlueTheBloodGulchChronicles''. It functioned as a SeriesFauxnale, complete with MultipleEndings, a case of BackForTheFinale, and an overall wrap up of five seasons of storytelling.** Episode 20 of Season 8 was one to both that season itself ("Revelation") and the general ''Machinima/RedVsBlueTheRecollection'' series, with [[spoiler:the death of the BigBad of Seasons 6, 7 and 8]].** Episodes 21 and 22 of Season 10 both function together as one for the Project Freelancer Saga (Seasons 9 and 10).*** In a variation, Episode 19 of the same season functions as one for the flashback segments, with [[spoiler:the assault on the ''Mother of Invention'']].* GreaterScopeVillain: ** [[spoiler:The Director of Project Freelancer]] is the cause of most of things that have happened in the series, both directly and indirectly. He only comes center stage in Season 10, though he never takes on a direct role. ** [[spoiler:The Chairman of the Oversight Sub-Committee Malcolm Hargrove, who is revealed to have funded the Insurrection. The audience already knows that his trying to arrest the Director results in him sending the BigBadDuumvirate of Wash and the Meta to find the Epsilon Unit. Finally, he serves as the BigBad for Seasons 11 and 12 under the alias "Control".]]* GreyAndGrayMorality: A running theme throughout the series is that everyone has their own good and bad aspects and there as many ultimately good people as their are bad people. In the case of the Blood Gulch Crew, although they are the heroes of the story and usually do the right thing, they are all also assholes in one way or another and do very selfish things in their adventures.** This is even pointed out in Season 12, with Washington pointing out the the New Republic and The Federal Army on Chorous are equally good and bad, mirrored by nearly identical RousingSpeech performed by both sides.* HeadBob: Except in exceptionally rare instances when a face is shown, usually happening in Freelancer-specific flashbacks. Both fans and animators have come to a consensus that giving definitive facial models to the BG crew would spoil the ambiguity of what they actually look like as apposed to how they act. This is even lampshaded in Episode 94 of ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles''.-->'''Sarge:''' What are they saying?\\'''Simmons:''' I have no idea. I can't find the volume on this monitor. And without any sound it just looks like a bunch of helmets bobbing up and down.\\'''Sarge:''' Is that how they talk? [[HypocriticalHumor They look ridiculous!]]* HellIsThatNoise: The hair-raising shrieks and growls coming from the sarcophagus in Episode 15, and [[spoiler:Carolina's own screaming as the {{Artificial Intelligence}}s in her head start freaking out.]]* HeroOfAnotherStory: Both the Red and Blue armies and Project Freelancer ([[spoiler:for a given value of "hero"]]).** In the first episode of the series, PlayerCharacter "the Master Chief" John-117 is mentioned by Grif as blowing up [[VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved "a whole Covenant armada"]] while the Reds and Blues are stuck fighting each other instead, dealing with issues that the games proper don't even mention. The reason why they aren't directly integrated into the fighting (as well as [[{{Revision}} why they are unaware that the Human-Covenant War is presumably over]]) are factors in Seasons 6-10.** As Seasons 9 and 10 show, Project Freelancer was dealing with post-war insurrection among humanity [[spoiler:(or maybe ''being'' said insurrection)]] while the majority of the UNSC was trying to keep peace with the Covenant and send out space expeditions with their upgraded ships, most notably the UNSC ''Infinity''.* HeroicSafeMode: "Recovery Mode", a mode that the Mark VI armors go into when they lock up so that a Recovery agent can pick them up. [[spoiler:This extends to the NearDeathExperience by Sarge in Season 1.]]* TheHeroDies: While it's difficult to pin down a "main protagonist" for the whole series, Church is the most likely candidate.** Church is killed off early in Season 1 as the series' first twist. He returns as a ghost a few episodes later.** [[spoiler:The Alpha A.I. (the Church of the first six seasons) is killed off at the end of Season 6 via an "emp" explosion.]]** [[spoiler:The Epsilon A.I. (who replaces Church in the following seven seasons) is killed off at the end of Season 13 via a self-administered defragmentation process.]]* HeterosexualLifePartners:** Grif and Simmons.** Church [[spoiler:(both of them)]] with both Tucker and Caboose.** York and Delta.* HyperspaceArsenal: Characters frequently produce enormous guns out of nowhere, at least until the engine upgraded to ''VideoGame/{{Halo 3}}'' and in [[ArtShift non-machinima animation sequences]]. This is due to the fact that this use of {{Hammerspace}} is precisely what happens in ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved'' and ''VideoGame/{{Halo 2}}'' when someone equips a weapon.* ImageSong: The cast seems to be really fond of having these as extras on the soundtracks. So far there's been:** Caboose: "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlsi-cOOVyM Your Best Friend]]"** Church: "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rmc661a9IRY I Am the Best]]"** Donut: "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8R-B7efoHs Donut: the Musical]]"** Sarge: "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tHLxEv6_ik Sarge's Blues]]"** Tex: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXDzS9nmKgY On Your Knees]]"** Tucker: "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9TLuDDUuUM Bow Chicka Wow Wow Wow]]** York: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YrfyeurqnI Come On Carolina]]"* LampshadedDoubleEntendre: Bow-chicka-wow-wow!* LastDisrespects: Three "funeral" scenes (the deceased in question were still living) are all about people being completely disrespectful at funerals, sometimes for their own agendas, sometimes just because they're jerks.** In Episode 51 of ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'', [[spoiler:Alpha-]]Church (the "dead" guy) is the one who wants a funeral; Tucker calls it lame and wanders off.** In Episode 83 of ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'', Grif turns Sarge's funeral into a comedy roast of Sarge, and Simmons uses the opportunity to campaign for Sarge's job.** In the Season 9 Episode 14, it turns out no one remembers anything about Simmons except he liked gum and talked a lot. * LastNameBasis: All of the Blood Gulch gang except for Sister, Doc, and Lopez. Though Doc would ''prefer'' to be on a Last Name Basis; he just got overruled. And in the case of Sarge, we don't know if the name given was his first or last name.* MesACrowd: [[spoiler:Alpha-]]Church, Lopez, Wyoming, and Tex have all done this by various mechanisms; time-looping for Church and Wyoming, and robot clones for Lopez and Tex.* MotifMerger: This is how the Meta symbol was formed, out of the symbols of all the other AI's which are most of the Greek alphabet.* MythArc: The fall and aftermath of Project Freelancer is one for Seasons 1-10, though it only really comes to the forefront after Season 5.* NeverASelfMadeWoman: Deconstructed, in different ways. [[spoiler: The two most prominent female characters for most of the series, Tex and Carolina, are the Director's lover (sort of) and daughter respectively; with Tex, the emotional connection with the Director is one-sided on his part, resulting in Tex being wholly professional herself but receiving special attention while being unable to act outside his concept of her, and with Carolina, it's implied that she's using Project Freelancer as a means of gaining approval and attention from the Director while being constrained by the demands of protocol.]]* NeverGotToSayGoodbye: The concept of farewells becomes very prevalent from season 5 onward, after [[spoiler:Tex says goodbye to Church just before her ship explodes.]]--> '''[[spoiler: Alison]]''': Don't say goodbye. I hate goodbyes.* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: The main characters are separated from one another in the beginning of season six. Even when they regroup, things only keep changing. It is only in season 10 that the characters regain some semblance of their lost status quo. Major developments to the story are [[spoiler:the deaths of two main characters, the revelation of the Red vs Blue war being a lie, and the death of the Director.]] The protagonists admit things simply cannot go back the way they used to be.* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The Freelancers. Only Tex, Wyoming, Washington, [[spoiler:and Florida]] have a first name known, and are almost never referred to by anything but their codenames. Washington almost gets indignant at one point when a guy tries to call him by his real name, [[TheyCallMeMisterTibbs though Washington personally hated him]].** [[spoiler: The only Freelancer whose full name is known is Butch Flowers, who was assigned to Blood Gulch to safeguard the Alpha. His code name was Agent Florida.]]* OutOfFocus: The Blues have been the driving focus of all the characters since season 5, while the Reds haven't gotten the chance to develop beyond background characters and comic relief.* PlotTumor: The Freelancers, starting in "Recovery One". However, TropesAreNotBad, and it does help to develop existing soldiers along the way in addition to fleshing out the program.* ThePowerOfFriendship: A running theme in the series. ** [[SuperSoldier Project]] [[BadassCrew Freelancer]] fell apart due to the loss of cohesion among the members who were ''supposed'' to be a team.--->'''[[spoiler:[[BrokenBird Carolina]]]]:''' It's because I had a team once. A team with [[TheSpartanWay the best training]], [[AppliedPhlebotinum the best equipment]], and despite everything that they had that made them the best, [[CompetitionFreak they still lied, and stole]], and [[BreakingTheFellowship tore each other to pieces]]. So you tell me; How the hell am I supposed to trust [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits a rag-tag team of idiots]], when I couldn't even trust the people that were closest to me?** The [[WeHaveReserves Red and Blue Armies]] of Outpost 1 (Blood Gulch), who are meant to hate each other and [[spoiler:be used for nothing more than training simulations for Project Freelancer]], still manage to pull themselves together to be TrueCompanions over the course of the series.--->'''[[spoiler:Sarge]]:''' You know? There's one thing you [[SuperSoldier Freelancers]] always seem to forget. That's the fact that [[BadassNormal we've managed to kick your ass]] time and time again! Oh, sure, you've got all your [[ManipulativeBastard smart plans]] and [[AppliedPhlebotinum your fancy technology]] and your [[TheSpartanWay advanced training]]. But in the end, [[WasItReallyWorthIt what has that got ya?]] Without [[TrueCompanions a team you can count on]], [[AFriendInNeed without your fellow soldier by your side]], all that doesn't really amount to squat, now does it?* PretentiousLatinMotto: If [[http://roosterteeth.com/store/product.php?id=354 this official shirt]] is any indication, Project Freelancer's is "''Roboris Per Scientia''" (strength through science).* RedOniBlueOni: In a way, the teams themselves. Most of the drama is driven by members of Blue Team, while Red Team is composed of some very... unbalanced characters who drive most of the comedy.* {{Revenge}}: This is a recurring theme of later series, several characters from both the protagonist and antagonist camps go on quests for vengeance against people who wronged them, [[CycleOfRevenge sometimes the outcome of one revenge quest leading to another]]. These quests are never complete successes though. Either the character fails (often dying in the process), manages to exact their revenge but end up left unsatisfied by it, or they realise at a crucial moment that [[HeWhoFightsMonsters they are becoming something unpleasant]] and [[KnowWhenToFoldEm give up their quest for vengeance before it's too late]]. If the latter happens with a bad guy character, it usually marks the start of that character's evolution into a better person. If RVB has any serious lessons to teach it's that revenge just isn't worth it, but that no matter how far you've gone down that path, it's never too late to back out. * {{Retcon}}: Used fairly often, but implied a few times as well. There's a fair number of plot holes that need ironing out if you watch every episode (including the mini-series, but naturally not the [=PSAs=]) and treat them all as canon. However, a fair number of these are due to {{revision}} and/or an UnreliableNarrator.** In Out of Mind, for instance, shows Tex and Church meeting at a Blue base. Tex comments that she doesn't know what Freelancer ability her armour has, even though she's shown to use its invisibility during Project flashback scenes and the finale to Season 10. [[spoiler:Then again, she also knew that Church was the Alpha, so it could be an example of her lying to Church to help keep him safe.]]** The last shots of Season 10 feature the Halo 4 map "Exile" and are accompanied by dialogue implying that the Reds and Blues have returned to Blood Gulch. However, in Season 11, it's explained that the Reds and Blues crash-landed on the planet Chorus on their way back to Blood Gulch, and the map is a new location - Crash Site Bravo.* RunningGag:** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdTIWPx-mTI Here's A List Of All Running Gags.]]** The arrival of the Warthog being heralded by [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZS0WIQI7UU polka-style ranchero music]]. Unfortunately, this stopped when it was damaged yet again in Season 6.*** Made even funnier by the fact that particular song only plays after the Warthog is repaired by Lopez.** Enemy {{Mooks}} being seen arguing with each other right before getting horribly killed.** [[spoiler:Alpha-]]Church being unable to hit anybody or anything with the sniper rifle, and, as shown in Season 6, [[{{Flanderization}} any other guns]].** Sarge trying to get Grif killed.** Tucker's armor (and only Tucker's, once the gag became running) getting covered in mysterious black stuff every time he goes through a teleporter.** "[[{{Beat}} ...]] You wanna talk about it?" "...No." Said in response to someone saying or doing something awkward.** "I'll take those odds." in response to the many ridiculous things the BGC have their money on.* SapientTank: Sheila mostly from season 4. * ScareChord: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeoNDckp0ZE The Meta's theme,]] because you just ''know'' something bad is about to happen.* SharePhrase:** "Son of a bitch!" - Anyone who's about to get blown up (or who's seen someone else nearby get blown up), most often being Church. Often repeated three times. ** Whenever [[PhraseCatcher Sister]] says something strange, someone will almost always say "Yeah! Wait. What?!"*** [[spoiler:In [[Machinima/RedVsBlueTheRecollection "Relocated"]], this follows when she isn't even there, but the conversation is ''about'' her.]]** "Shotgun." "Shotgu... fuck!" - Usually Grif and Simmons.** "HURK! Bleh." When someone dies in the first five seasons.** "HEGUHURGERK!" Whenever someone gets possessed by a ghost[[spoiler:/AI]].* SleepsWithBothEyesOpen: Captain Butch Flowers. This is a lampshading of the series' LimitedAnimation, since the creators can't realistically make it look like a character is sleeping.--> Now to go to sleep, standing up, with my eyes open; as is my custom!* SocketedEquipment: Armor has a slot for AI, and can have [[AppliedPhlebotinum Freelancer equipment]] installed as well.* SpeechCentricWork: Especially in the early seasons. [[WordOfGod "Burnie" Burns says]] that due to only using Franchise/{{Halo}} game engines, his "use of verbs" was extremely limited, a limitation that [[AnimationBump went away]] with the inclusion of Creator/MontyOum and other animations from Season 8 onward.-->'''Caboose:''' Well, maybe all of this is happening inside of a movie.-->'''Tucker:''' Oh please, who would watch that movie? All we ever do is stand around and talk!* StoryBreakerPower:** The reason the cast never gets to use the Spartan Laser in seasons 6-8, despite it being on a number of multi-player maps in Halo 3, such as Valhalla, Standoff, Avalanche, etc.** Not to mention the armor shields for that matter. These guys wear the Mk 6 Spartan armor, yet only Caboose has been seen using the standard shields. Everyone else can easily be shot down unless they're specifically said to have the dome shield, overshields, or both. Or the Meta, who's insanely durable with or without them.** Wyoming's time manipulation falls under this as well, especially in the prequels where he's never seen using it even after he gets Gamma as his AI.* SurroundedByIdiots: A majority of the cast, from the most competent soldier to the dumbest of troops believe themselves to be this, often glazing over their own flaws and shortcomings. Church's closing lines during the final episode of The Blood Gulch Chronicles has him indirectly explain why he hates everyone around him for very specific reasons.* TeamSpirit: Despite their many quirks and deficiencies, the Blood Gulch crew accomplish some pretty amazing things when they work together. This is most noticeable in their climactic fights against [[spoiler:the Meta]] and [[spoiler:the Director's army of Tex drones]], where by working together and having each other's backs they're able to make up for their individual flaws and actually defeat vastly superior opponents. In contrast, the series' most powerful character is a Lone Wolf who is also [[AnthropomorphicPersonification literally the incarnation]] of FailureIsTheOnlyOption.* TookALevelInBadass: The Reds and Blues' fighting skills improve considerably as the plot moves forward, most notably in the later seasons.* TrueCompanions: The Blood Gulch Crew becomes this overtime, to the point that the "war" is just a way for them to pass the time. * TwoActStructure: So far, the series seems split between "comedy with some plot" (Seasons 1-5) and "plot with some comedy" (Seasons 6-10). The eleventh season mixes the two, due to a shift in tone near the end that persists throughout the Chorus trilogy.* VillainOfAnotherStory: The Covenant count as this. The series is mentioned to take place after "the Great War" with the Covenant, and Project Freelancer is said to have been made as one of many experimental programs to be the magic bullet to win the war, But the Covenant themselves very rarely appear in the series and are mostly kept as an occasional reference, and they have virtually no role in the series, whether good or bad.* VitriolicBestBuds:** The entire main cast (with the exceptions of Donut and Caboose) consists of a bunch of self-centered jackasses. Despite this, though, they stick by one another and frequently risk their lives for each other.** Most of the Freelancers were this as well, before [[BreakingTheFellowship the program fell apart.]]* WeAreStrugglingTogether: Though the Reds and Blues ''should'' be enemies, they normally aren't. That isn't to say that they don't make life difficult for each other almost as easily as breathing.-->'''Washington:''' You guys are not making my life easy right now.\\'''Tucker:''' Do we ever?\\'''Washington:''' ...good point.* WeaponOfChoice: Besides armor color, almost every member of the current main cast has a particular weapon they favor which serves to distinguish them and help them stand out in a crowd. ** AnAxeToGrind: The Insurrectionist leader uses collapsible throwing axes, one of two weapons in the series [[CanonForeigner without a counterpart in Halo canon]].** BareFistedMonk: When she doesn't have another weapon on hand, Tex tends toward just using her SuperStrength or otherwise her skill in close combat to beat people down with her hands, though her arsenal in most cases is far less static. The sleeveless Insurrectionist, though he has weapons, also tends toward using brute strength in combat before finishing people off with guns. [[spoiler:Caboose]], when sufficiently enraged, also tends toward no-weapons combat.** {{BFG}}: In ''Machinima/RedVsBlueTheRecollection'' and afterwards, Simmons takes to using a rocket launcher.** CarFu: Grif is the default driver and is much more comfortable fighting inside a vehicle than outside of one.** FireBreathingWeapon: Utilized by Sharkface, the Insurrectionist Flame Soldier. [[spoiler: He uses two smaller wrist mounted ones in Season 13.]]** GatlingGood: Utilized by the twin Insurrectionist gunners. Also, when not using a {{BFG}}, Simmons is generally on the machine gun turret on the [[CoolCar Chupathingy]]. Any red-striped Fed soldier wields a turret as well.** GrenadeLauncher[=/=]BayonetYa: The "Knifle", the Brute Shot, is the primary weapon of Maine after he takes it from an Insurrectionist pile of Covenant weaponry. [[spoiler:Grif takes it after his death, and rechristens it the "Grifshot", until it was confiscated by Charon Industries between Seasons 10 and 11. Now it's in the Chairman's Freelancer TrophyRoom. And as of the season 13 finale, he's got it back as they broke into said trophy room]].** KnifeNut: Agent Connecticut uses a combat knife. Felix is also a big fan of these. Lampshaded when Washington pulls out his own, remarking that he's not the only one good with knives.** KukrisAreKool[=/=]DualWielding: The female insurrectionist is partial to combat knives, generally two kukris at the same time.** LaserBlade: Tucker's "[[CoolSword Great Weapon]]", an Energy Sword. Aside from in some MentalWorld antics, [[OnlyTheChosenMayWield he's the only one who can use it]]. [[spoiler: Except for Doyle and Felix later on.]]** MoreDakka: Caboose uses the Assault Rifle, having [[AwesomeAnachronisticApparel not upgraded when everyone else did to the marksman guns]]. The Federal Army of Chorus all use it too, with the exception of General Doyle and [[GatlingGood the Gunman.]]** PlasmaCannon[=/=]GunsAkimbo: Agent Carolina takes up dual Plasma Rifles in Season 10, her primary weapon set aside from [[DropTheHammer the rest]] [[StaticStunGun of]] [[GrapplingHookPistol her]] [[{{Handguns}} arsenal]]. *** GrapplingHookPistol: Aside from that, however, she tends to use a black gun that fires a grappling hook [[CanonForeigner that isn't even seen in the games proper]].** ShortRangeShotgun: The red demoman Insurrectionist uses one of these in the prequel segments of Season 10. Sarge also uses this, often forgetting its incredibly short range. According to a parody video about "zombie plans", he keeps it just in case of a ZombieApocalypse.** SniperRifle: [[FriendlySniper Agent North Dakota and Wyoming]], along with [[ColdSniper Locus, the sniper Insurrectionist,]] and [[ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy Church]].*** As a variation, Washington has the Marksman gun known as the Battle Rifle, which is a mix between this and MoreDakka.*** Another variation, the DMR, is used uniformly by the New Republic soldiers.** ThrowDownTheBomblet[=/=]StickyBomb: Donut tend toward using plasma grenades.** UtilityWeapon: Being an ActualPacifist, Doc's only "weapon" is his medical scanner, a Plasma Pistol. However, he can overload it to send out a charged burst to hurt someone if absolutely necessary.* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Notably averted - the fate of almost every major or minor character who appears in the show is addressed in some way eventually, be it by them [[NotQuiteDead coming back]], getting killed off, or even making a minor cameo in a later episode. Even if a character is PutOnABus, they're likely to show up again later. Season 12 and 13 have been especially notable in that they resolved many remaining plot points and [[AbortedArc abandoned storylines]] from prior seasons. Some examples include Butch Flowers getting revived at the end of Season 5 and [[spoiler:later getting revealed to be a Freelancer in Season 10]], Andy the bomb getting auto-called by Siri in Season 11, [[spoiler:the Chairman being revealed as "Control" in Season 12, Sharkface, the Counselor, Sister and Junior reappearing in Season 13]], Vic narrating the story segments in season 14, and 479r's confirmation of reappearing in the same season, the series has impressively managed to account for every member of its [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters sprawling cast]] numbering in the hundreds.** We got a more minor example of this when Carolina cites what happened to Georgia when cautioning her fellows about their jetpacks. No matter how much poor Washington asks, nobody actually tells him [[YouDontWantToKnow what happened to Georgia]]. [[spoiler: Then, in Season 10's epilogue, Georgia slams into a window somewhere in space, coincidentally where equally-absent Utah just found his lucky coin.]]* WinsByDoingAbsolutelyNothing: Episode 100 has a rare instance of winning by doing nothing out of ''pure abject laziness.'' During the events of the episode the [[AIIsACrapshoot rogue, homicidal AI]] Omega jumps from person to person due to its ability to BodySurf through radios, but can be forced out of someone either by the AI's choice or by [[BeatTheCurseOutOfHim knocking out the host]]. For the Red Team hosts, they get punched in the head; first Simmons (repeatedly), then Donut, then Sarge. When O'Malley finally infects Grif, he is the only Red to not get beat up by Tex when he notes that he suddenly has an urge to conquer the universe, but that it's [[OutOfCharacterMoment out of character for him]] because [[BrilliantButLazy that would take work]]. His response is to not do anything at all...whereupon he promptly falls asleep standing up. Omega either can't wake Grif up or is so disgusted by his laziness that he abandons Grif all together to jump to another host.* WorldOfSnark: It'd be faster to make a list of characters who ''aren't'' snarky at some point. Which probably consists of [[TheStoic Counselor Aiden Price]], [[BigBad the Director]], [[TheCutie Donut]], and [[TheDitz Caboose]].* WrongfulAccusationInsurance: Kind of. Despite the Blood Gulch Crew unfairly labeled as war criminals, not much of what happened with their involvement in the aftermath of Project Freelancer was their fault. However, assuming that law in the [=RvB=] universe functions anywhere close to ours, there is absolutely ''no way'' they should have been pardoned by the UNSC simply by taking down [[BigBad the Director]] [[note]]Who, at that point, the UNSC had essentially forgotten about[[/note]] due to the various crimes they committed while on the run from the law, which include the killing of a quite a few Recovery soldiers, multiple accounts of vehicle theft, and withholding information, as well as evading arrest in the first place.** This is more justified after the Season 12 finale, [[spoiler: revealing that the Chairman (the man responsible for their pardon) was ultimately behind their ship crashing where the soldiers were expected to be disposed of.]][[/folder]]----[[index]]* ''Machinima/RedVsBlueTheBloodGulchChronicles'': Seasons 1-5 plus "Out of Mind"* ''Machinima/RedVsBlueTheRecollection'': Seasons 6-8 plus "Recovery One" and "Relocated"* ''Machinima/RedVsBlueTheProjectFreelancerSaga'': Seasons 9-10* ''Machinima/RedVsBlueTheChorusTrilogy'': Seasons 11-13[[/index]]----

[[folder:Season 14]]* ActuallyPrettyFunny: When [[spoiler:Caboose]] somehow shows up in [[spoiler:Vic's narration room]], he's so impressed he lets him tell the episode's story instead.* AIIsACrapshoot: Cherry has some...defects. She follows anyone's orders without question and more often than not mishears most of what the crew tells her. Santos never did get around to fixing that voice-modulator...* AlternateUniverse: Discussed by Vic in the opening monologue to episode 5, which itself takes place in an alternate universe where the BGC are Mega Bloks figurines in a [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory Toy Story-esque]] scenario.--> '''Vic''': Yo! You ever hear of that multiverse theory? ''Way crazy,'' amigo. A bunch of eggheads think there's an ''unlimited'' number of parallel universes. Like, maybe there's a universe where no one's even heard of Red vs. Blue. It could be, like, Green vs. Beige. Or, there could be a universe where we're all fish! I don't know why I said fish as an example, maybe there's a universe out there where I made a better analogy; let's all swim to that one. Dude, there could be a universe where we don't even ''exist.'' Or, maybe we're just a part of someone's dream. Maybe we're in that universe right now! Maybe this is all just part of some kid's imagination. ''That'' would be weird.* AnachronicOrder: Parodied by Vic: -->So, what better place to start than the beginning? Well, you could get all artsy and [[InMediasRes start somewhere in the middle]]. All the cool directors do that. Get you all excited. You're like, "Whoa dude! What's goin' on, man? Why's that guy shooting that other guy?" [[HowWeGotHere Then they all do that rewind thing.]] Tell the tale, lay the breadcrumbs, roll the credits. Classic! But how about we start... [[{{Prequel}} before the beginning?]]* AnimationBump: The Mercs Trilogy (episodes 9-11) feature detailed expressions and movements, tightly-choreographed fights and sinking to the bgm, and a more fluid look on par with season 10 despite its vastly different art style. In particular, Siris's mechanical leg is accounted for in each of his motions down to precise detail.* ArtShift: The season is animated in a multitude of different styles.** Episode 1 is animated in 2D, adapting footage from an old non-canon short, "Red vs. Blue: Animated", and inserting it into the canon as one of the iterations that Church ran through in the Epsilon unit.** Episodes 2-4 return to the original VideoGame/{{Halo}} engine to mimic the style of the first two and a half seasons, which the episodes are framed as a direct prequel to.** Episode 5, (The Brick Gulch Chronicles) is made with Mega-Bloks stop-motion, based in a world where the Blood Gulchers are [[spoiler:just toys in a child's bedroom, tormented by his little brother Malcolm Hargrove.]]** Episodes 6 and 7 revolve around another Red Team in VideoGame/{{Halo 3}} {{Machinima}} and [[spoiler: briefly in the Halo CE engine.]]** Episode 8 is set in live-action, as a Sarge 3 trailer and [[spoiler: returns to Halo 4 machinima at the end.]]** Episodes 9-11 are animated in 3D CelShading similar to sister show ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', revolving around [[spoiler: Felix and Locus before Chorus.]] ** Episode 12 is machinimated in Halo 2, playing as a Project Freelancer propaganda vid to recruit soldiers for the Red/Blue "War", set between Season 5 and Reconstruction.** Episode 13 is a ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'' episode in 3D CGI as Grif and Simmons ponder the age-old question of "who would win? Carolina or The Meta?" [[spoiler:Carolina.]]** Episode 14 is done in black and white to portray a Noir setting.** Episode 15 is done in "crayon" to illustrate Caboose's simple-minded way of thinking.** Episode 16 uses Halo 2 again, expanding on a scene in Episode 100 that was already funny to begin with.** As is expected, the scenes specific to the Epsilon memory unit use VideoGame/HaloReach Machinimation in episode 17.** Episode 18 is a MusicalEpisode done in VideoGame/{{Halo 2}} {{Machinima}} and [[spoiler: returns to Videogame/{{Halo 4}} Machinima at the end.]]** Episodes 21 and 22 are filmed in Halo 3.** Episode 23 is a live action crossover with ''WebVideo/{{Immersion}}''.* BadBadActing: When the BGC tries to remake ''Film/ReservoirDogs'', their acting ranges from not good but trying (Church) to couldn't care less (Grif).* BilingualBonus: In ''The Number 1 Movie in the Galaxy'', Caboose is shown with a logo labeled "Non Mea Culpa", translating to [[CatchPhrase "Not my fault."]]* BreakingTheFourthWall: When Sarge asks "what was that!?" after hearing something crash, Caboose says "I think it was a logo."* BirthdayEpisode: Episode 5, ''The Brick Gulch Chronicles'' starts off with Grif and Simmons forgetting about Sarge's birthday and going out to search for a present. [[spoiler:Sarge eventually does get a present: a miniature explosive which he subsequently throws at Malcolm with no effect. At the end of the episode, Caboose gives Sarge a cake... with [[OhCrap another mini explosive]] as the candle.]]* BreadEggsBreadedEggs:** For his birthday, Sarge wants either Simmons and Grif's respect, a gift card, a shotgun, or a gift card for a shotgun that shoots respect.** There are five things Iowa doesn't want to roll saving throws against in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': "poison, a fireball, a poison fireball, a [[Anime/DragonballZ Super Saiyan]], and an avalanche".* BreatherEpisode: After the DarkerAndEdgier ''Mercs'' trilogy, there’s the more lighthearted and humorous ''Fight the Good Fight'', a propaganda parody with the Reds and Blues goofing around in Blood Gulch.* TheBusCameBack:** Vic is reintroduced after a prolonged absence since Season 5.** Captain Butch Flowers is given a large role in the prequel episodes, his only prior appearance since the Blood Gulch Chronicles being his cameos as Agent Florida in Seasons 9 and 10.* {{Crossover}}: With ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'' as the July battle is Agent Carolina vs. The Meta. [[spoiler:Among other things, it implies/outright says that Sarge is Boomstick's dad.]]* CueTheSun: At the end of episode 11 after [[spoiler:Felix, Locus and Siris]] have taken out all the bad guys the sun rises. Lampshaded by [[spoiler:Felix]].--> '''[[spoiler:Felix]]''': Pfft. Nature's so fucking cliche.* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Episode 14, "Grey vs. Gray," is entirely in grayscale, to give the murder mystery plot a FilmNoir feel. [[spoiler:It's also because the characters are all colorblind.]]* EpicFail: In "Get Bent", Epsilon-Church somehow managed to misremember the genders of all the Reds [[spoiler:as well as Tex and, in the ending, ''his own gender'']] while in the Epsilon unit.* EvilKnockoff: Agent Washington claims that it isn't the real Tucker in the third Sarge movie, [[Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice Sarge v Tucker The Origin of Sin]], but an evil clone.* ExpandedUniverse: The season is a chance to invite many writers and animators that have been influenced by the series to contribute to the setting at any point in the timeline barring the end of season 13, [[ArtShift in any number of animation styles]].* {{Foreshadowing}}: In "Club", before we are actually told who the protagonists are, we have [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience the colors of their ties]]: orange and green.* ForegoneConclusion: ** Since the newly-introduced Hammer is a soldier accompanying Grif and Simmons on a mission in a prequel flashback, the fact that he's going to kick the bucket is obvious and played for laughs.*** Same goes for the other Red soldiers competing against Sarge for the position of... Sargent.** We see the [=FH57=] unit plan to unite with the Red team against the Blues. Since the live footage is from Season 1 and we've never seen them before, we know they don't get there.** In Episodes 9 to 11, we know [[spoiler:Felix and Locus survive]] since it's a prequel, and chronologically they turn up later on.*** Although, this is subverted in regards to [[spoiler:[[RememberTheNewGuy Siris]]]].* ForWantOfANail: As implied under StartOfDarkness, had [[spoiler:Felix and Locus]] not gotten the Lozano job, they ''may'' not have become the sociopaths they became.** More specifically, had Lozano's dad [[spoiler:actually given a crap about his son]]...** The fate of [=FH57=] can be pinpointed to two words: [[spoiler:"[[{{Mondegreen}} shelf-construction]]"]].** Had Grif and Simmons decided to go into the Blue base along with Hammer, they would've been blown up as well.** As "Why We're Here" shows, [[spoiler:Florida tripping over a power cable]] wound up being a big linchpin in the timeline of the show. After all, without it, [[spoiler:[=VIC=] wouldn't have gotten his erratic personality and the roster of future recruits wouldn't have been changed to include Caboose, Donut, and Sister]].* GenderFlip: The twist of episode 17, where Church somehow misremembers the Reds as females.* HeroOfAnotherStory: Hero might be stretching it, but episodes 6, 7, and 15 reinforce the notion that there's Reds and Blues all over the galaxy, [[TooDumbToLive and they're all idiots]].* HeroicSacrifice: Emphasis on trying to make Hammer's sound heroic.* IHaveNoSon: [[spoiler:Ruben Lozano doesn't care about his son Gabriel at all. He says point blank that he's the worst thing he has ever brought into the world and would consider Felix and Locus killing him a favor. What's worse is he says this while his son can hear every word he says and just moments ago was begging his father to pay the ransom money Felix was demanding from him.]]* JerkassHasAPoint: In "From Stumbled Beginnings", Red Team trainees Grif, Simmons, and Hammer are sent to investigate a base that was recently taken by a Blue Team. In an attempt to weasel out of infiltrating the base (Which Hammer wants to do), Grif wonders why three recruits were sent on such a dangerous mission. [[spoiler: When Hammer goes LeeroyJenkins and checks out the base alone, he finds that several bombs were placed- and the countdown's already going.]]* LampshadeHanging: Vic's specialty.* LemonyNarrator: Vic's narration seems to have a hard time keeping his train of thought.-->'''Vic''': Space. It's like...really , really, really big dude. And it's got all sorts of stuff in it too! I'm talking about aliens, humans, canyons, spaceships, those little peppers wrapped in bacon stuffed with cheese…whoo! Hits the spot every time, dude.* LukeYouAreMyFather: [[spoiler:As it turns out, Sarge and [[WebAnimation/DeathBattle Boomstick]] have a matching backstory about a father who joined the army rather than stick around to raise his son. [[OhCrap Sarge]], Wiz, Grif, Simmons, and Caboose realize it, Boomstick does not.]]* MusclesAreMeaningless: On one side, it's Tucker, wearing his Halo armor as usual. On the other side, it's Barbara, wearing a short dress. Barb flattens Tucker with one punch.* NoFourthWall: Vic's narration is directed towards the viewers as a narrator with asides about audience expectations.-->My name is Vic. (singing) 555-VICK, and I can open the window to a galaxy full of stories you never even knew existed.-->(window appears)-->See what I did there? That's a segue. We were talking about windows, window shows up, creates some intrigue.** In Episode 15, Caboose actually ''finds'' Vic's narration room. Vic is so impressed, he lets him do the episode.* OhCrap: ** Felix's ClusterFBomb of a rant in "Call" when he realizes that [[spoiler:Lozano has no intention of getting his son back]].** Inside the Epsilon Unit, Church's dawning horror that he [[spoiler:misremembered the Red Team as girls]], somehow.* OutOfCharacterAlert: Epsilon didn't need the alert by then, but [[spoiler:unlike her male counterpart, female!Donut hates interior decorating]]. Church decides he should've expected this, given how enthusiastic [[spoiler:female!Sarge and female!Simmons]] were about it.* PerspectiveFlip: We see the sequence when Omega jumps into most of the Red and Blues' minds from his point of view in episode 16.* {{Prequel}}: ** Episodes 2-4, which elaborate on the circumstances leading up to Season 1 as Flowers recruits the most incompetent and ineffectual soldiers possible.* RealWorldEpisode: Episode 24, "Red Vs Blue vs Rooster Teeth" has the Reds and Caboose wind up in Rooster Teeth HQ due to a combination of a teleported accident, energy drink being spilled on the Xbox, and Burnie pulling the Machinima death switch.* ReassignedToAntarctica: The "Triplets" of Project Freelancer, Agents Ohio, Iowa, and Idaho, are basically dumped on a frozen wasteland of a planet for being the lowest ranked Agents. There, they meet a similarly abandoned trio of soldiers for Charon Industries.* {{Revision}}: One that's been a ''long'' time coming. In Season 1, Church reminisces about his supposed time in Sidewinder, where he witnessed Tex take out a legion of soldiers, including his friend Private Jimmy. This scene in particular (in addition to one from ''Out of Mind''), was contradicted by the later revelations about the Alpha's creation and posting at Blood Gulch in Seasons 6 and 10. This is finally explained in Episode 4, revealing that [[spoiler:Private Jimmy is Church's original host body, and was lobotomized during the implementation surgery on Sidewinder. Church filled the gaps in his memory with some influence from Flowers, replacing the Freelancer personnel Tex fought during the crash with the blue army and either Carolina or the Meta with Jimmy himself.]]* ShaggyDogStory: Done three times.** In "The Brick Gulch Chronicles", Simmons and Grif spend the episode looking for a birthday present for Sarge. After many mishaps, Simmons eventually gives him a firework, which fails to ignite. After celebrating that they're glad to be alive, [[DiabolusExMachina Caboose brings them a birthday candle that blows them all to bits]].** In "Invaders from Another Mother", the [=FH57=] crew convince Peake to stop his insurrection with his cult of aliens with a heartfelt speech by their leader, and reassure Santos that although he won't have the wine bar he wanted, they'll make him a shelf instead, they all are overjoyed with their new-found unity as a team and the freedom to travel in space. Then their resident AI, Cherry mishears [[spoiler:"shelf-construction" as "self-destruction", presumably again, blowing them all to bits]].** In "Grey vs. Gray" [[spoiler:It turns out that the first soldier to die wasn't killed by any of them - he had a sudden heart attack when the lights went out and they killed each other for nothing.]]* ShoutOut: ** A rather transparent one. Episode three is called [[Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey "Fifty Shades of Red"]].** Again with episode 6, entitled [[Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack "Orange is the New Red"]].** In episode 22, Sherry's introductions ("My name's Sherry, this is my partner Darryl, this is my other partner Terrill") reference a line from ''Series/{{Newhart}}'': "Hi, I'm Larry. This is my brother, Darryl. This is my other brother, Darryl."* SickAndWrong: Epsilon-Church's reactions to [[GenderFlip finding out he misremembered the Reds as women]].--> '''Epsilon:''' Oh... this is so wrong! This is so fucking wrong!--> '''Epsilon:''' Ugh... I need [[BrainBleach mental bleach]]. Or just regular bleach. I don't want to live in this world...* SpecialEffectFailure: In-universe, when the [=FH57=] Red team [[spoiler:arrive at Blood Gulch]], they note with some confusion that it all looks so low-res and blocky.* SpecialGuest: "Grey vs. Gray" stars (and was partially written by) the LetsPlay/GameGrumps. Arin Hanson, Suzy Hanson, Ross O'Donovan, and Barry Kramer provide the voices for Cobb, Reg, Deuce, and Squatch, while Barry and Brain Wecht helped write.* StartOfDarkness: While they weren't the nicest people to begin with, [[spoiler:Locus and Felix]] have a glimpse of their origins shown in episodes 9, 10, and 11. After the war, they were professional bounty hunters and called themselves "the good guys" with a loosely-defined but still noticeable code of morals they would not cross. But one bad job set them on the path of becoming the sociopath and conflicted killer seen in the Chorus trilogy. Vic's narration at the start of episode 9 makes this clear.-->'''Vic''': Point I'm trying to make is: not everyone starts off evil, dude. People change over time. Sometimes for better. And sometimes, well...* TerribleIntervieweesMontage: Episode 3 has Flowers conducting one for the position of the other Blue rookie. In a twist, he's looking ''for'' the most terrible interviewee, as the more expendable, the better. [[ForegoneConclusion Tucker gets the job]].* UpgradeVsPrototypeFight: The ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'' fight is between Carolina during the Chorus Trilogy and the Meta before ''Reconstruction'', meaning that their fight is also between the original AI fragments and Epsilon (who's helped by a LivingMemory of each fragment). Likewise, both Freelancers have a very similar arrangement of armor enhancements, so Carolina can hold her own against the Meta more easily than most other Freelancers can.* WhamLine: Flowers' speech to the cobalt soldier he's brought into Sidewinder ends with a name that entirely changes what the audience has come to expect from [[NiceGuy Captain Butch Flowers]], painting the scene in a whole new light:-->'''Flowers''': The world will never forget [[spoiler:Private Jimmy]].** If you hadn't put two and two together beforehand in "Club", we have this bit of dialogue right before Lozano is knocked out by the men in the orange and green ties:--->'''Lozano''': Fuck you! Who the hell do you think you are?--->[[spoiler:'''Felix''']]: Well, [[spoiler:that's Locus, I'm Felix]], and... [[DramaticIrony we're the good guys]]. *** And then, in the ''next'' episode, ''this'' is when the attempt to hold Lozano for ransom begins falling apart:---->'''[[spoiler:Felix]]''': (on the phone with Ruben, Lozano's father) So, Mr. Lozano. I suggest you think very carefully about the----->'''Ruben''': [[spoiler:You're a fucking idiot.]] ** In-Universe in "Meta vs. Carolina: Dawn of Awesome", we have this little moment:--->'''[[WebAnimation/DeathBattle Wiz]]:''' (narrating) There's a lot going on here. Turns out, the Director was [[spoiler:Carolina's father all along and Tex was actually the AI fragment memory of his deceased wife, meaning Carolina's greatest rival for her father's approval was actually her own mother]].--->(cut back to the others)--->'''Grif and Simmons''': (in-unison) [[LockedOutOfTheLoop Wait,]] ''[[BigWhat WHAT?!]]''*** And then, we have the ''end'' of the episode, where Sarge enters the picture:--->'''Sarge''': Y'know, you remind me of someone-- almost like the son that I... never wanted...--->'''[[spoiler:Boomstick]]''': Well, that's funny. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint I was about to say]] [[spoiler:[[LukeYouAreMyFather you're like the Pappy I never had.]] [[DisappearedDad When I was a kid, he ran out on us to join the Army and never came back.]]]]--->'''Sarge''': [[OhCrap Huh. Well... how about that?]] [[INeedToGoIronMyDog Time to move along, I guess. (backs out of the room) Nothing to see here. Do-do-do Do-di-do Do-do.]] ** "Caboose's Guide to Making Friends" has an interesting variant, particularly because [[spoiler:it wasn't even ''implied'' beforehand that Caboose would reference the ending of the previous season]]:--->'''Caboose''': BUT. (suddenly somber) Sometimes... ([[spoiler:crayon!Church begins to fragment]]) [[spoiler:you will lose a friend]]. Sometimes... [[spoiler:even your best friend]]. ([[spoiler:crayon!Church explodes]])** PlayedForLaughs, but here's the immediate sign that Epsilon fucked up remembering shit in "Get Bent":--->'''Tucker''': Church, it's like I always said. Women are like Anime/{{Voltron}}: The more you can hook up, the better it gets!--->'''Epsilon''': [[TemptingFate And what chicks are we going to pick up exactly?]]--->'''Tucker''': [[LockedOutOfTheLoop What are you, the rookie?]] [[Rule63 We've got a whole base full of them right here in the canyon!]]* WhamShot: TheReveal [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience of the protagonists]] for Episodes 9, 10 and 11 definitely counts.* WhoWouldWantToWatchUs: When Simmons suggests doing a SliceOfLife documentary of Blood Gulch, the others shoot down the idea on the grounds that only a [[TakeThatAudience "brain dead lunatic"]] would want to watch it.* YouNeverAsked: Apparently, the Female Reds from "Get Bent" were able to make a major expansion of the Red Base simply by putting in a requisition for materials with Command.--> '''Epsilon:''' Wait... You mean we could've... All we had to do was... We just had to ''ask?!''[[/folder]]

[[folder:Others]]''[=PSAs=] and specials''

Rooster Teeth has also created several videos outside of the main series created for promotions or just to make humorous videos that aren't related to the plot of the show.

* BuriedAlive: This happens to Sarge in an April Fool's Day episode when Grif mistakes him for being dead. He escaped by eating his way out of the grave.* TheCameo: The financial crisis PSA involves the Blues having their base and equipment sold to "some foreign characters from another video game". The Sponsor's Cut makes it clear the characters are [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario and Luigi]], complete with the new base flag being the flagpole from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1''.* ContinuityNod: Tucker's less than normal knowledge of time comes up again in the Rock the Veto PSA when has says they were playing Blindfold for "like 30 hours last night."* DecidedByOneVote: A Type 3 scenario that ends up unresolved in the Election Night video. Grif apparently meant to vote, but forgot to register in time due to his usual laziness.* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: The American Grifball League of America.* {{Eagleland}}: Type 1, parodied. After examining how Red vs. Blue would be done by other countries, Church and Tucker decide to do it the American way, which they conclude is driving big cars and blowing shit up. The video ends with a Warthog flying over an explosion with the American flag in the background and "America the Beautiful" playing.** This sets up a BrickJoke: earlier in the episode, they had done the "Russian version", where many of the characters' statements are censored and replaced with praise of the Russian government and its leader, [[{{Expy}} Nikolai]] [[UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin Petrovsky]]. Hilariously, at the end of the episode, his name is randomly cut into the song.* EEqualsMCHammer: The "Sarge Seal of Approval" is E=[=MCSarged=].* ExplosiveStupidity: Caboose was prone to this during the Fourth of July PSA about handling fireworks.-->'''Donut''': Hey, Caboose. Have you seen my grenade?\\'''Caboose''': Yes, I put it in my pants. Wait-... (cue explosion)* FauxToGuide:** The guide to making an online video.** [[http://redvsblue.com/archive/?id=789=more&s=7 The Fire Safety PSA.]] [[TooDumbToLive It ends with the group dying in a fire inside the building]] and is given an InMemoriam message.** "Match Breaking", a guide by Tucker and Simmons on picking up girls.* FourPointScale: The PSA about the gaming industry lampshades this practice.* TheGrinch: Church in the Christmas special. His acts include shooting the Red's Christmas tree decorations, spreading lies about Santa to Caboose and stealing the present he tricked Tucker into getting for him.* LethalChef: Sarge's dish for the 2008 Thanksgiving dinner was severed human hands dressed like turkeys due to misunderstanding his research materials (first-grader reports) while Caboose misinterpreted a sexual metaphor his grandmother once told him in his youth and brought "hair pie". Sarge had to set him straight on that one.-->'''Caboose''': WHAT? [[GoMadFromTheRevelation Grandma]], '''[[BigNo nooo]]!'''\\'''Sarge''': Don't even get me ''started'' on the "gobble-gobble".* MedalOfDishonor: The Olympics PSA has Sarge suggest giving these to the losers in the form of enriched uranium.* MemeticBadass: In-universe, [[{{Metafiction}} sort of...]] In a series of PSA videos made to hype ''VideoGame/Halo3ODST'', [[Franchise/{{Halo}} Sergeant Johnson]] is painted to be even more of this than he already was in the Halo games with claims that he once [[OneManArmy took out an entire Covenant Batallion single handedly]], [[ImplacableMan is immortal]], and [[EyeBeams has laser vision]].** The credits after the videos has a disclaimer saying [[TrailersAlwaysLie "laser vision not included"]].* NewYearsResolution: Both teams spent the New Year's video in a "Resolveathon" to come up with the best resolutions. The losers had suffer a FateWorseThanDeath...actually following through on their resolutions. The Blues take advantage of this by resolving to beat up the Reds.* RequiredSecondaryPowers: Actually averted in the "Upgrading" PSA, when Caboose gets his armor stuck on invisibility mode:-->'''Church''': Don't worry Caboose, I'm sure when [[VideoGame/HaloReach the game]] comes out there'll be a way to shut it off.-->'''Caboose''': Good. I need sleep.-->'''Sarge''': Sleep? When that game comes out, I won't sleep for a week!-->'''Church''': Yeah, no, it's not that, it's just that he's having trouble sleeping because he can see through his eyelids now.-->'''Sarge''': Oh. That's creepy.* RightBehindMe: Church kinda invokes the wrath of Sgt. Johnson in the 3rd ODST PSA this way.* SchmuckBait: The second and third season [=DVDs=] have bonus videos implying either a love story with Tex or "Sheila's Sexy Adventure". Clicking either of those and you get berated for actually expecting something.* SeeminglyProfoundFool: The "What I Did On My Summer" PSA has [[TheDitz Caboose]] unwittingly "[[MediumAwareness escaping into the campaign]]" of ''VideoGame/HaloReach'', [[MindScrew either becoming, being mistaken for, or revealing himself to be]] [[{{AFGNCAAP}} Noble Six.]]* ShoutOut: During an early tattoo PSA, Church suggests that if the viewer does get one, it should of "your favorite character from your favorite online cartoon". It then shows a picture of [[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner Strong Bad]]. Church then grumbles "I meant your '''other''' favorite online cartoon", which then shows [[Webcomic/PennyArcade Gabe and Tycho]].* StealthPun: In the Voting Fever PSA. Sarge sings "We're going to need a big strong Chorus" at the end of Season Eleven the group finds out that the planet they are stranded on is called "Chorus" ** Another in the Christmas special "Christmas is the one day of the year you should never miss Church."* TelegraphGagSTOP: Sarge receives a message in this form for the Halo: Reach PSA.* TheInternetIsSeriousBusiness: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpreMR7p5ik A PSA was made about this.]]* TrustMeImAnX: From the bird flu PSA.-->'''Doc''': Guys, trust me. I'm a doctor.\\'''Simmons''': No, you're not! You just play one on the internet!* UnexplainedRecovery: Most of the time, if a character suffers a seemingly fatal injury, they'll turn out to be fine later, to the point that towards the end of the series they don't even bother explaining it anymore.* WildlifeCommentarySpoof: One of the bonuses in the ''Red Vs Blue'' DVD is a movie spoof that has Sarge doing this to Grif (framed as a hunting show, naturally).* WorstAid: The general premise of the cold and flu PSA. "I've had the bullets in my shotgun medically coated for the fastest possible injection of life-saving medicine."* WorstWhateverEver: Sarge gives this during the 2008 Thanksgiving special when he discovers it doesn't involve inviting your enemies over and shooting them in the back.* YouHaveNoIdeaWhoYoureDealingWith: Sarge says this about Caboose (or rather, "you have no idea what you just dealt with") when he and Church realize he took a vacation in the ''VideoGame/HaloReach'' campaign.-->'''Church:''' Caboose, that was some crazy story dude.\\'''Caboose:''' I know, you have no idea.\\'''Sarge:''' No. ''You'' have no idea.\\'''Caboose:''' Right, nobody has any idea.\\'''Sarge:''' No son, you specifically, have no idea.----

''Red vs. Blue: Animated''

A series pilot that was shown at PAX 2008 and later announced dead at the 2010 San Diego Comic Con, due to a combination of time constraints, money and the staff's inability to work on the timeframe of another company. The Pilot/Trailer can be found [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW2ZMRt7i_I here]]. The pilot later became a part of the first episode of Season 14, where it is revealed to be a simulation run by Epsilon between seasons 8 and 9.

* AnimatedAdaptation: Well, slightly more animated than the in-game footage that is used.* GroinAttack: A ''Grunt'' manages to do this to Simmons.[[/folder]]

------>''[[BrickJoke It's one of life's great mysteries, isn't it?]]''